The Klezmatics Perform A Hanukkah Concert At The Jewish Museum 12/7

The Klezmatics will perform a Hanukkah concert at The Jewish Museum on Tuesday, December 7 at 7:30 pm. Globally renowned world music superstars, they are the only klezmer band to win a Grammy Award.

This concert is part of Light x Eight: Hanukkah 2010 at The Jewish Museum. This annual celebration features eclectic music, family festivities, provocative talk and more. A complete guide to Hanukkah at The Jewish Museum can be found at http://www.TheJewishMuseum.org/Hanukkah2010.

Tickets for this program are $35 for the general public, and $30 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337. Tickets for lectures, film screenings and concerts at The Jewish Museum can now be purchased online at the Museum's web site, http://www.TheJewishMuseum.org.

The Klezmatics emerged out of the vibrant cultural scene of New York City's East Village in 1986 with klezmer music steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism and eclectic musical influences including Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms, jazz and punk. In the course of over twenty years and nine albums they have continued making music that is wild, mystical, provocative, reflective and ecstatically danceable.

The Klezmatics have worked with many musical luminaries, including Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Itzhak Perlman, Ben Folds and Natalie Merchant. Their collaborations have extended to numerous theatrical, film, dance and television projects, including Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner's A Dybbuk and It's An Undoing World, and the band has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, Great Performances and A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. They have performed at venues worldwide, including Central Park Summerstage, Carnegie Hall, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. The Klezmatics have topped the Billboard world music charts on numerous occasions and have garnered many awards and accolades throughout their career, including the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album for their CD, Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie.

An infrared assistive listening system for the hearing impaired is available for programs in the Museum's S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Auditorium.

Public Programs at The Jewish Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Major annual support is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. The audio-visual system has been funded by New York State Assembly Member Jonathan Bing.

About The Jewish Museum
Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent United States institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, the Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects-paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

General Information
Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, 11am to 5:45pm; Thursday, 11am to 8pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members. Admission is free on Saturdays. For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum's website at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.